Psalms 88:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.”
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“I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:”
King James Version · Public Domain“I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I have been reckoned with those going down <FI>to<Fi> the pit, I have been as a man without strength.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 88:4 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Psalms 28:1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
- Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
- Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
- Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- 2 Corinthians 13:4For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.
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